Douglas County sheriff’s deputies arrested one man Tuesday after a vehicle pursuit ended in a field north of Lawrence. The chase began just before noon after deputies observed a Dodge Caravan driving recklessly in North Lawrence near the turnpike, said spokesperson George Diepenbrock with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle matched the description of a vehicle that Lawrence police suspected to ...
A Lawrence teen accused of murder in the shooting death of another teen plans to argue that he acted in self-defense under Kansas' "stand your ground" law, his attorney said Tuesday in Douglas County District Court. Derrick Del Reed, 17, who is charged with one count of first-degree murder, appeared in court via Zoom on Tuesday, and attorneys discussed when to hear two motions that had been filed in the case ...
This story was updated at 4:17 p.m. on Monday, March 20, 2023. The original version can be found below. A 14-year old Lawrence boy is dead after a Saturday evening shooting in eastern Lawrence, while on Monday another teen has been charged with first-degree murder in the case. Law enforcement responded to the 1100 block of East 13th Street at about 5 p.m. after receiving reports of a shooting in the area. Law ...
A Manhattan man accused of sexually exploiting a teenager in Douglas County in January 2022 was charged Friday in Douglas County District Court. Preston Meier Jones, 21, was charged with one felony count of sexual exploitation of a child by promoting a sexual performance, according to charging documents. The documents said that the charges were related to an incident that took place on Jan. 3, 2022, and that ...
An 82-year old man drove across a field and into a creek near the intersection of Kansas Highways 40 and 32 on Thursday morning, and the Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating whether alcohol was involved in the accident. Douglas County sheriff’s deputies responded to the crash just before 11 a.m. and found that the man was not injured, sheriff’s office spokesperson George Diepenbrock said in an email to ...
Lawrence officials can’t yet say whether the city’s drinking water contains dangerous “forever chemicals” that came under new scrutiny from the Environmental Protection Agency this week, but Lawrence has started spending money to find out. City officials last tested for the polyfluorinated substances — known as PFAS — in 2013, and the city didn’t detect any in its water supply at that time. But ...